Chapter 757: Punishment and Detention
During dinner, Dumbledore, who had been absent for a long time, appeared punctually in the instructor’s seat.
He looked like he had been traveling for quite some time—his silver hair and beard were dull and disheveled, and though he tried to conceal it, a closer look revealed the exhaustion on his face.
"He must have been busy lately," Kanna remarked, glancing toward the instructor’s seat.
"Yes," Kyle nodded.
Even though he was at Hogwarts, he could tell from the latest issue of The Daily Prophet that much of the morale in the fight against the Death Eaters was due to Dumbledore.
To counter their growing threat, Dumbledore had to leave Hogwarts more frequently, making his presence known beyond the castle walls. After all, the entire wizarding world knew that Voldemort feared Dumbledore more than anyone else, and as long as he remained active, people could cling to hope.
That was why Dumbledore had been so busy lately.
"By the way," Kanna said suddenly, as she spread jam on her toast. "I heard Potter and Malfoy had a fight in the bathroom?"
"Yeah..." Kyle nodded absentmindedly but then froze. "Wait, who told you that?"
He distinctly remembered Kanna being in the common room all afternoon, buried in her homework. He hadn’t mentioned it to her—so how did she know? It couldn’t have been Snape...
"Oh, it was Mikel," Kanna replied casually. "He went to the Hospital Wing this afternoon to get some Pepperup Potion so he could stay up all night working on his homework. He overheard it there."